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“If you are sick, you need to stay home,” Dr. Hinshaw urges
About 11 per cent of COVID-19 cases in Alberta are the result of people going to work or still going to social gatherings when symptomatic while awaiting test results."This is a significant risk, and ...
Oct 05, 2020
The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada for Oct. 5
The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 8:36 p.m. EDT on Oct. 5, 2020: There are 168,961 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 79,650 confirmed (including 5,884 deaths, 66,180 re...
Oct 05, 2020
Nunavut confirms nine positive COVID-19 cases at mine, others presumptive
IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut has confirmed nine positive cases of COVID-19 at the Hope Bay gold mine in the western part of the territory. The Nunavut government announced the positive cases in a ...
Oct 05, 2020
Alleged drug traffickers make court appearances
Both a trial and a sentencing will take place next month for two men who RCMP allege were extensively involved in drug trafficking throughout central Alberta.Levin Gabriel Hill, 26, of Sylvan Lake fac...
Oct 05, 2020
Red Deer man to be sentenced next year for child luring-related offenses
Sentencing will take place next year for a Red Deer man charged with child luring-related offenses.Wayne David Taylor, 59, plead guilty in Red Deer provincial court on Monday to counts of child luring...
Oct 05, 2020
Assisted dying bill reintroduced as court deadline looms
OTTAWA - The federal government reintroduced Monday legislation to amend Canada's law on medical assistance in dying - just two months before a court-imposed deadline. The government has until Dec. 18...
Oct 05, 2020
Feds reveal details of $35M fund to help make farms safer in COVID-19 pandemic
OTTAWA - Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau says some Canadian farmers can now apply for emergency funding to protect their workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The program will subsidize farms...
Oct 05, 2020
Alberta reaches five-month high in active COVID-19 cases, Red Deer down to four
While the numbers in Red Deer remain quite low, active cases of COVID-19 in Alberta are the highest they've been in nearly five months.The province has 1,783 active cases as of Monday - the most since...
Oct 05, 2020
A look as some of the Canadians who have won the Nobel Prize throughout history
Scientist Michael Houghton has been awarded this year's Nobel Prize in medicine for his work with the hepatitis C virus. While Houghton was born in Britain, he studies at the University of Alberta and...
Oct 05, 2020
Canada suspends Turkish arms exports amid allegations in Armenia-Azerbaijan fight
OTTAWA - Canada suspended arms exports to Turkey while it investigates claims that drone-sensor technology created by an Ontario company is being improperly used in renewed fighting between Azerbaijan...
Oct 05, 2020